Wilhelm von Hahnke


Wilhelm Gustav Karl Bernhard von Hahnke was a Prussian Field Marshal. He was the son of later Prussian Oberst Wilhelm von Hahnke and his wife Angelique, née von der Lancken. He married 1865 in Berlin Josephine von Bülow, daughter of Friedrich von Bülow. The couple had seven sons and two daughters, among them:
Wilhelm, Prussian Major general ∞ Elisabeth von Schlieffen, daughter of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen, and Adolf, jurist.
In 1888 he was appointed Chief of the German Imperial Military Cabinet.